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ok yeah

TOTALLY THANKS
also, could you run it by me how you did that for future reference? i really dont get it T_T. thanks ! Djdorama 02:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
DOUBLE POST.

i know how you moved it. i dont get the whole QVFD thing though (which i didnt do btw) Djdorama 02:52, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Basically QVFD works to allow users to delete stuff that should nt be around, when you move stuff you create an 'article' that redirects you to the titiel you've moved it to. If you are going to mainspace your work thwere is no need for these redircts. If you move an article that does not need a redirect you just add to the top of the QVFD list like this {{Redirect|Uneeded redirect title of some kind}} then an admin will get rid of it.

A big tip is not to move the same article twice (just ask fro help if you do) even if you've made a mistake, as a real mess can result. The other thing is just to move the article with the tab at the top of the screen (which you did already), mkae sure though that the title you want is exactly the one you want though. Hope this explains things:)--Sycamore(Talk) 09:26, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia administrators this week decried the lack of need for new recruits, as they are wholly confident in their ability to secretly control the wiki from behind a moth-eaten curtain. On the voting page, which this reporter will probably be banned for pointing out to the common folk, the current cabal members expressed their desire to see more normal non-admins, or 'normies', be involved with the recent changes page. However, the option for another member being inducted into the cabal was declined, as things like the ban patrol and the Cajek Alert System seem to be running just fine, thank you very much.

Cabalists were adamant about their opinions. RAHB had the following to say: "I cannot confirm the non-existence of the non-existent cabal, being that it does not exist, and I'm no Harry Potter-reading fantasy boy. I can however confirm the existence of puppies. THEY'RE ADORABLE!" The non-existence of the cabal was further emphasized by Mordillo who declined comment when approached as he was leaving the Secret Cabal Headquarters & Tiki Lounge.

Experts were skeptical of the existence of the cabal, but point out that nothing should be ruled out. "Woof," said UnSignpost political correspondent DogNewspaper (pictured), citing the low level of vandalism and general dickery since the recent opping of Under user and MrN9000, who have become known to Uncyclopedians as "The Redcoats".

Dr. Skullthumper, co-founder of the very newspaper you are reading right now, has unrolled his newest creation, the NetBar. UnSignpost editors were too busy and ridden with jealousy to investigate the nature of this new invention, but our technology correspondant DogNewspaper (pictured) was willing to speculate on the new gadget. "Bark bark," he proclaimed, elaborating that this new thing is most likely some sort of candy bar or online tavern.

This is not the first time the good doctor has abandoned the UnSignpost to work on other equally trivial projects. Fnoodle, disguised as a harmless spellcheck wiki-bot, is actually a perfect one-eight replica of Skull. This entity has nearly 20,000 edits, mostly vandalisms of pages in Thekillerfroggy's userspace. However, Fnoodle has sat abandoned in the doctor's sandbox since last October, since all of said doctor's time recently has been poured into his new project, the NetBar.

Uncyclopedians had mixed reactions today. Sockpuppet of an unregistered user had this to say: "Huh? What are you talking about? Of course I'm drunk." A gathering in the Uncyclopedia break room formed, with users misguidedly attempting to ward off squirrels with the NetBar. When reached for comment, Dr. Skullthumper said, "What's an UnSignpost?"

13:33, 4 April 2009 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 203.10.224.60 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day ‎(we apologise for taking so long to ban you for this, but don't blank pages. thanks for waiting!)

19:28, 4 April 2009 RAHB (Talk | contribs) blocked 81.155.30.76 (Talk) with an expiry time of 2 weeks ‎(Go play in the sandbox, little boy. Uncyclopedia is for grownups.)

22:34, 6 April 2009 Dr. Skullthumper (Talk | contribs) blocked MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 minute, 32 seconds ‎(There's this guy sitting next to me and he's all "man, I'm pissed off at that MrN9000 guy" and I'm like "okay")

Biopic of the Week

Continuing in our series on Uncyclopedia legends, Cap'n Ben is one of those legends who is actually active. Since his first edit in March of 2005, the Cap'n has been makin' it happen in various ways: viaawesomewritings, breakingnewsstories, or intructionalguides. He is even up for Writer of the Month for a second time since his first WotM came back in a time when Uncyclopedia kind of sucked. But it doesn't anymore...thanks to Cap'n Ben.

Alternative Medicine is what the cool kids used to use in high school instead of going to the nurse like the other squares. Now that those kids are all grown up, they have continued this tradition of using such non-mainstream remedies such as Extreme Colonic Irrigation, Ass Candling, Homopathy, and Inacupuncture (pictured).

my article, part 2

i think i submitted it for a pee review, but im not sure. i'm so helpless. help please? or pee review it yaself? idk Djdorama 00:05, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I can't find your article on Pee review. To submit it you need to go to Pee review and go to the bottom, simply enter the article title and click submit. You will then come up with an editing screen, maybe add a little about what you've tried to do etc and click save. Then your artivcle will be on the list of articles to be reviewed, give me shout if it does not work quite right:)--Sycamore(Talk) 09:32, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

IC reminder

Hi Sycamore, just dropping by to let you know that we haven't seen you at IC in a couple weeks. Maybe you've been busy, maybe you've been on a two week bender, but regardless of your excuse, we need you. Imperial Colonization is all about participation, and being a Colonizer requires an active commitment. If you're not up for it, there's nothing wrong with that. Just let us know. But if you do wish to continue calling yourself a Colonizer, get out there on the front lines, maggit! (If you do not participate in this coming week, we will be forced to remove you from the roster.) Cheers! SirGerrycheeversGunTalk 14:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm pretty busy these days, although I love the idea of IC I doubt I will have the time to contribute to it I'm afraid. To keep up with you paperwork, probably take my name down if you like:)--Sycamore(Talk) 16:12, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

If you stop eating Hagis and drinking scotch all day long, you'll have much more quality time to write. Also, you'll lose weight and your hair will stop falling off. ~ 16:15, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Self improvment is masturbation, wheres the self destuction?;) Nah the fan/shit mash up is coming on in full force...--Sycamore(Talk) 16:25, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

The 7th edition of the Poo Lit Surprise has come to a close! This installment of Uncyclopedia's bi-annual competition featured an interesting amount of tie scores given directly by individual judges as well as being present in the overall scores. Recent competitions have featured much more decisive scoring but this time around the points were more evenly distributed amongst the entries. As the winning and co-winning entries hit VFH, we're seeing levels of voting that haven't been seen in a while.

The first article nominated to VFH from the competition also came with a bold prediction by one numbskull, who questioned his existence if Karl Lagerfeld did not receive 20 For. votes. At 03:57, 11 April 2009 the 20th For vote was cast by Thekillerfroggy and it's safe to say that the author of this instant Uncyclopedia classic should be considered the overall champion with his three entries garnering him two first place articles and one second place finish. Unscrupulous Unsignpost reporters stalked found Modusoperandi while he was receiving longevity treatments in a Côte d'Azur country club and asked him the following softball question: "Who was your favorite character in the 70's hit sitcom Barney Miller?" to which he answered "While each member of the cast had appeal, as each represented part of America's "Melting Pot", I found the comparatively minor character of Inspector Frank Luger (far right), with his high state of partly-sober curmudgeonitude, to be especially charming."

One of our winners was not only a perfect 1/1 by winning the best rewrite category with Money but Sycamore also received the vaunted Writer of the Month trophy for March 2009!
Another plink user that fared well with plink his outright victory in the best plink mainspace article category was GlobalTourniquet, plink who wrote an article titled with a plink name that is difficult plink to recollect at the moment plonk. He also had two other entries that received 1st runner-up status, so it was a good showing for the artist formerly known as Thomas Pynchon's left Nut.

A user that happens to wander in and write us an offering on occasion claimed a share of first place in the alternative namespace category with the UnNews article Obama unveils education reform plans. Monika should drop in more often!

The ever-popular Uncyclopedia Worst100Reflections series proves it is as popular as ever! As this great year of Our Lord 2009 passes the midpoint of April, the latest iteration has just limped past 10 items, although one or two of them carry a subtle whiff of vanity. According to our resident math boffins here at Signpost Towers, we are exactly "a bit over a quarter of the way through the year, but not yet a third of the way", and so therefore should have precisely "a few more Worst Reflections than this so far".

There are several schools of thought as to why this situation has been allowed to arise. One gaining currency among quite literally possibly some Uncyclopedians is that everyone on the site is so busy producing quality material that they just don't have time to devote to such frivolities. However, the continued existence and rate of progress of Forum:Count to a million neatly quashes that theory. Another hypothesis advanced by as many as no or fewer people is that precisely nothing of any interest to anyone has happened, either on this wiki or on the interwebs in general this year. However, while this is significantly more likely than the first theory, the generally accepted explanation seems to be that, quite simply and predictably, Uncyclopedia is the worst.

20:34, 14 April 2009 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 85.164.152.104 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week ‎ (blanking spree? go find something more interesting to do, like sticking your head in an anthill)

06:25, 10 April 2009 Roman Dog Bird (Talk | contribs) blocked SquintyK (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 day ‎ (14 year olds shouldn't be having sex / whatever the hell it is you're doing.)

Biopic of the Week

Dexter111344 has the distinction of being the most well-known Uncyclopedian with the most numbers in his name (besides 5P4N6). As a newly coronated poopsmith, he helps take out the garbage on a regular basis. This is just one of many thankless tasks he carries out; he also occasionally volunteers as a paperboy and botanist, and is known for keeping douches in their place. If you see something awesome, and are wondering if Dexter did it, the answer is: "probably". And if he didn't...you know who did...

Old School Featured Article of the Week

Waiting for Godot is a questioning of the fundamental core of our existence, the foundation on which our moral and social codes are built; the uncertainty of Godot's identity, coupled with the stark, unembellished style of the whole play, poses some powerful questions about our own identities.

DogNewspaper, lovable mascot of the UnSignpost, appearing on the right, will not be appearing in this week's issue. This decision was based on various infractions by DogNewspaper, most notably the Easter presents that were left in an editor's shoe. Look for DogNewspaper to return next week with his monthly piece on mailman defense.

ICU vs. expand

You don't have to worry! I am a sysop in the greek Uncyclopedia, so I know what to do...;)
Anyway, for a short period I want be writing any articles because I want to see some of the articles. But I'll be back! Muahaha. --EnKay 16:00, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

hmmm, could you give me an idea (or probably an article) to write? Because nothing comes to my mind now. Enkay 17:11, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

There's come directions on here. Theres some idea pages, but its usually a good idea just to do your own thing. When I was starting out I always looked at our featured stuff to get ideas etc. I don't want to be too specific, just browse a bit I suppose, and you'll find an idea you can steal something will come:-)--Sycamore(Talk) 17:18, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Why do you actually care? What's thirty days to us = nothing; seven days to someone starting up is a little bit harsh if they've clearly spent time trying to do something half decent. Obviously we need to stop the crapflood (one liners etc), but a little bit of patience and judgement go a long way. Peace:)--Sycamore(Talk) 17:10, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

ICU isn't a death sentence; it's just a prod to the article's creator to improve it before an admin decides what to do with it. {{Expand}} is vague. If you just read the template, it doesn't say anything about deletion in 30 days. A newbie editor would probably assume that {{Expand}} is just like {{stub}} and not feel that there's any real need to fix it, so in that way expand can be more dangerous than ICU. So I guess it's a matter of preference, but I "actually care" because I don't like having my edits undone without a good reason. Cheers. --PlebSYNDROMECUNmedicate(butt poop!!!!) 20:15, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

People Quotes

Sometimes they come as the article comes together, obviously, my undertanding is that this is Ape Erotcism - so maybe some coverage of that by David Attenborough. Usually my quotes or quote at the top is more like an essay question whcih the article fills out, but I'll often add a few throughout the article.

Thanks for adding images to the article that I started, Archaeological Geophysics. Given the topic, you may be interested in another article that I just started, Time Team. Do please help out if you are able.
Thanks.

Hey Syc, I received the same message. Did you want to take care of this or should I help too? I stumbled onto (the TV show) Time Team only a year or so ago and promptly watched every episode I could find on Guba. Absolutely love the show. It's kind of weird but for some reason I see Mick in my head when I mentally put a "face" on Mordillo, though I know he can't be that old.-- 11:59, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

No, I'm certainly not that old. ~ 12:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

More the merrier I say, I haven't seen Time Team in ages. Also I think of Mordillo being a bit like Naboo from the Mighty Boosh...--Sycamore(Talk) 12:06, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

My world changed a few years back when I moved from a small house with a live (free) cable line to my new place, where I refuse to pay for the crap anymore. Too much stuff online for free nowadays anyway. I've always loved documentaries and Time Team is hands down the most educational archaeology show I've ever seen. Trust me, the Mordillo/Mick association in my brain is purely one of respect. I'll see what I can add to the article.-- 12:15, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Not sure if this is breaking any rule as such but...

Racine

The article Racine, you tagged it with Ugly. How can I fix it and why is it ugly? 24.167.214.53 03:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I tagged it becasue its pretty messy, the images are all over the place the sectiosn untidy, with some short and theres white spcae created by the poor foramtting. Check out Oscar Wilde or France for an ideas on good formatting and see our Beginner's Guide. Hope this helps, remember not to be put off, and have fun:)--Sycamore(Talk) 10:05, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Jonathon Shenton

'Ello Syccy. Was just wondering why you put the ICU on this one, since as far as I can see it's vanity (Google turns up Facebokk and linkedin pages, the usual crap) - I'm assuming you must be aware of a famous Jonathon Shenton of which I am ignorant. On the other hand, if you don't and the ICU was the result of one of those brief unexplainable mental episodes that sometimes afflicts us all, I'll add it to QVFD. :-) Rabbi TechnokvetchContribsFOXES 15:52, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

UnSignpost 23rd April 09

Uncyclopedia is currently halfway through its bi-annual (semi-annual?) rewriting extravaganza, lovingly referred to as Conservation Week. Every six months, members of this silly wiki partake in the practice of pruning, hacking, nurturing, feeding, and otherwise bothering the 'trees' of the site, which is the running metaphor for 'article'. From the greatest feature machine to the lowliest n00b, everyone can participate in Conservation Week by simply finding a sub-par article and making it better via trimming or adding content, or just plain magic.

However, our special investigator DogNewspaper (pictured) has discovered that this so-called Rewrite-a-Thon is not the all-encompassing entity it is meant to be. In fact, normal operations such as VFD, VFH, and the Cajek Ban Joke Factory have not ground to a halt as they clearly should during this special fortnight. Users were puzzled by this revelation; RabbiTechno admitted that he has "little idea what 99.9% of the whole site is all about," and he elaborated that without his constant vigilance, UnNews would surely deteriorate into a third-rate media parody, which this reporter can verify is true.

Known conservation standouts have also shockingly participated in non-rewrite-related activities during the designated tree-hugging week. Dexter111344, reigning Greasy Mechanic, blamed the inclement weather, nosy librarians, and the almighty Zeus. Or maybe he just rewrote Zeus, but the librarian part was true for sure.

In the April 23rd, 2009 edition of the UnSignpost, masked co-chief-editor Gerrycheevers covertly linked the word 'vigilance' to Uncyclopedia's Vigilance Week page, inciting riots and mass panic among Uncyclopedians site-wide. Vigilance Week, the mere mention of which often inspires multiple forums where users argue and complain in bold or even italic font, is a period where the rules of article deletion are relaxed, and the worst articles on Uncyclopedia are loaded into the basement of the British Houses of Parliament and blown up using comical amounts of gunpowder.

The last Vigilance Week reportedly occured in September/October 2007, resulting in the death of borderline humorous articles by the dozens. The horrific memories of that week have greatly affected some Uncyclopedians, who remain extremely charged about the issue to this day. For example, Modusoperandi recalled his experience when asked to comment on Vigilance Week, saying, "Certainly. What's "Vigilance Week"?" Other users were similarly shocked, as V-Week, as it has come to be known, was described as "unmemorable" by one user, and "get off my lawn" by another.

However, the passion that Vigilance Week stirs up is negligent when compared to the shitstorm that results upon the mention of that black sheep of Uncyclopedia holidays: Forest Fire Week. This period in the Fall of 2006, when Uncyc was still really an infant in wiki-years, saw over 3000 articles deleted, more than 15% the total website content at the time. In fact, this very article will probably merit at least one forum regarding FFW despite this periodical's poor circulation and low-quality electrons.

At press time, the subtle link to Vigilance Week had caused a medium-sized riot, with hordes of angry users tipping over cars in the Uncyclopedia Parking Structure and setting the animals in the Uncyclopedia Zoo loose. The Cabal is poised to get involved by seizing all mediaoutlets and gener- ATTENTION COMMONERS. ALL IS WELL. THERE WILL BE NO OCCURENCES OF ANY DELETION WEEKS OF ANY KIND. FURTHERMORE, COMEDIC ALLOWANCES WILL HEREBY BE INCREASED FROM 80 GRAMS TO 65 GRAMS. THIS MESSAGE IS NOT THE DOING OF THE CABAL, AS THERE IS NO CABAL. GOODNIGHT, AND HAVE A PLEASANT TOMORROW.

13:26, 21 April 2009 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked 168.216.48.30 (Talk) with an expiry time of 2 weeks ‎(If you're that bored go and find a solution for the world hunger. Trust me, you'll be much more popular)

Biopic of the Week

In another installment of Uncylopedia Legends, Procopius is a user you might never have heard of due to his recent inactivity. Without so much as a fancy sig or a new-fangled typewriter, he cranked out featureafterfeature. His contributions to the medium of misinformation were also wellreceived. Procopius was merely a hard-working blue collar Uncyclopedian, and is hereby recognized by this periodical as awesome.

Rogue ball of tumbleweed recently exploded onto the Uncyclopedia scene, earning a few fractions of votes for N00b of the Month. Despite mild support, it seems fellow n00b YKWTMM is set to take the coveted badge home this month, with an unprecedented 'several' votes. Nevertheless, the UnSignpost would like to recognize Tumbleweed for his resilience and moxie.

press

hey sycamore, just wondering if you had any comment for the unsignpost regarding its impending one-year anniversary issue in the works. are you excited? scared? apathetic? SirGerrycheeversGunTalk 17:05, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

I feel the signpost has in many ways has brought a little too much cabal propaganda to the site for my liking. The steely grip of the Jews has affected impartiality and ultimately the papers independence is something we should all be skeptical about. Also who the feck is this Cajek guy?:)--Sycamore(Talk) 10:06, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

I suppose all I mean is that there is not the same levels of truly deletion stuff in my view - I have also noticed that the most hard-line of people on here tend contribute less. Maybe if more people looked at rewrites (which is very full at the moment) or actually spent more time on their own articles a nicer trend would come about. We have so obsessed with 'quality control' in whatever form we're starting to become McDonald's which would be a shame. VFD does not add to the site, it only takes away. For your insult - 'you're dickfluff':-)--Sycamore(Talk) 12:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

I slightly disagree with your opinion (I agree about 98%, but I'm kinda one of the hard-liners you so speak of, although I'd have to say I contribute a lot. If you know what I mean. And by that I mean I have written quite a lot... Sure, that's what I meant.), but I'll grab my shotgun and shoot several liberals for your right to say it! And for beer! --MegaPleb•Dexter111344•Complain here 19:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Since next week marks the incredible one-year anniversary of the storied UnSignpost, the editors are focusing all of their efforts on that issue and thus leaving this issue out in the cold. Rest assured that next week's 46th issue, marking the 46 weeks in the year on the Uncyclopedia calendar, will be "a bumper special issue" according to co-chief-editor Under user.

The promise of a special bonus issue brings to mind several of the UnSignpost's more notable issues, such as the All-Kitten Issue and the Seventeenth Issue Spectacular. Reactions to the milestone were mixed in the community. "I feel the signpost has in many ways brought a little too much cabal propaganda to the site for my liking," said noted good-looking tree Sycamore. Were there a cabal, cabal authorities would currently be on the way to Sycamore's house to arrest him. Lucky for him there is no cabal.

By the way, if you really thought this was the first anniversary issue, you suck.

Morning

Re. your outside poop consultant idea - I'm not always about and Dexter seems to be with us late at night on the whole, so I'm perfectly happy for you to archive, etc. I'm sure most of the admins know you well enough to not take action if they see you remove anything from VFD etc. :-) Rabbi TechnokvetchContribsFOXES 09:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I asked Mordillo - he's cool. Just giving a little bit of support, I won't be officially doing it, but if things get a little bit much, I'll pop my head in and go down on you... I mean archive a bit:)--Sycamore(Talk) 09:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, saw your query on his page. If he's cool with it there's no reason anyone else shouldn't be. Thanks for the noms and votes just recently, btw. Rabbi TechnokvetchContribsFOXES 09:53, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

You're one of the few writers that has the whole 'I wish I'd written that effect' for me. I think you should have won WoTM ages ago. As far as poop goes, I don't want to interfere and if you want me to bugger off I will, sometimes the coverage is not as complete as it could be, I don't want to be poopsmith again, but sometimes a little bit of support keep things going a little smoother:)--Sycamore(Talk) 10:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I've thought the same about some of your articles, as it happens. But then I think to myself, "No, it would've been a poorer article if I'd done it, because it suits Sycamore's (or whichever writer wrote it) style better than mine." Mine suits fairly dry, pseudo-intellectual subjects; whereas yours is far better for articles on music and so on - we all have differing talents I suppose. Interfering and buggering off doesn't even come into question - we're all responsible for this site and keeping it to as high a standard as possible. Personally, I wouldn't care at all if any trusted user carried out tasks such as archiving, but we need to keep it limited just to keep track of things I suppose. If I could, I'd be on here for at least part of every day and could handle the smithing, but the missus gets pissed off and keeps going on about spending 'quality time' or some similar girly thing with her. Women, eh? Still, she has the breasts in this relationship, so she makes the rules. Rabbi TechnokvetchContribsFOXES 10:19, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree, you and Dex do a great job, and I don't want to interfere with that, sometimes the site does move a little quicker. I think two official poopsmiths is a good thing, having a bit of 'rogue help' from can also be good thing every now and then:-)--Sycamore(Talk) 16:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Blacking up (pastime)

Feedback on my Articles?

Hey Sycamore I'm rather new to Uncyclopedia and I was wondering if you could provide any feedback on my two articles: Monkey Jesus and Canada II? Thanks :) Thatguyoverthere1 13:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd say they're pretty good. Much better than the ones I did when I was starting out - very good for a newbie:) Two things I would do is for the future I would pick real topics to parody (there are exceptions to this though) and for these ones I would sharpen the formatting. Check out the works by these guys for ideas, if you click the edit tab you can see what they've done: Mhaille, ENeGMA and Modusoperandi. They do some of the best stuff around here. There are a loads of guides for newbies, I found it was easiest just to look at what the best were doing and see how I could fit that in with what I wanted to do. For some tips check out HTBFANJS and out our Beginner's Guide - they've got some ideas and tips. You can get a proper review here: Pee Review, just follow the instructions and someone will eventually review your article. Hope this helps:-)--Sycamore(Talk) 13:58, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Blocking IP addresses

Out of curiosity - the IP address of the library system I am using is blocked on both WP and Uncyclopedia but not a third IP-address-allowing edit wiki. Can I deduce that "the same idiot" has been acting doolally twicewise, rather than a pan-Wiki block? Jackiespeel 17:40, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Usually this is the case to my knowledge. Wikipedia admins and Uncyclopedia are very seperate entities, its likly that somebody has vadnalised both wikis:)--Sycamore(Talk) 16:35, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Trolls

Trolls feed on attention as do spammers. If possible don't give them anything that give the impession we wan them around. Thanks:)--Sycamore(Talk) 16:35, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Free Stuff

While I was over at the Googleplex researching History of GoogleI managed to grab a load of these promotional t-shirts.Here's one for you because you voted for the article on VFH!Model not included.Thankyou from Rabbi Techno

Can you believe it? We can't - particularly as we're only on issue number 46 - and yet it's true, the greatest piece of talkpage spam in the history of this shabby little wiki (and the most modest too) celebrates its first anniversary! Birthed in a blaze of optimism and creativity by fiendish evil genius Dr. Skullthumper and mythical user-in-exile Cajek at the start of May 2008, the UnSignpost was intended to shine a light into the dark corners of the wiki, keeping users up-to-date with anything worth keeping up-to-date with. In this special article, we examine what went wrong, where that glorious vision got corrupted, and how it has ended up in its current state.

The early issues were churned out at a great rate by the founding editors, and Cajek was so enthused by the project that he suggested to Skullthumper that they should move to a twice-weekly release - fortunately, this suggestion was shot down in flames by the doc, or the paper may never have celebrated a second month, let alone a full year! Skullthumper was first to leave the Signpost behind for pastures new, perhaps feeling his work was already done. Looking back nostalgically now at those heady early days, Skullexclusively observed: "Well! Working on the UnSignpost in the beginning was a really fun experience, not gonna lie. Cajek and I were both super excited about it. I'm glad it existed through to today, entirely by the help of other people. The setup was seriously the most fun part. We had NO clue what we were doing, we were experimenting with formatting, content, and a bot that only worked half the time. To summarize: It kicked ass. I had no idea it was about a year ago that it started."

With only Cajek powering it, the Signpost forged onwards, but was beginning to run into troubled waters - even Cajek's legendary enthusiasm was beginning to founder, and when he began to struggle for time, he asked DJ Irreverent to take the helm. We asked Cajek for a nostalgic comment about the Signpost, but he was unavailable, so instead here's a random line from one of his articles: "Also, don't be surprised if you go to jail for what society deems "gross", "horrible", and "Satanic": it's all part of being an ant keeper... and an ant "watcher"". The DJ managed to steady the ship (how long can we sustain this metaphor?), but struggled to handle the torch he'd been passed by his adopter (looks like we didn't sustain it very long - never mind!). Asked to comment on this turbulent period, the DJexclusively remarked: "I dropped said torch like a ton of bricks as a good child should always do. I could not take on the family business, I needed to dance. Anyway, I wrote about 2 articles".

So the pattern of users taking over the paper, only to burn out and abandon it again was becoming well established. Next in the editor's chair was UU, who lasted about 6 issues, before becoming so overwhelmed by the pressures of the paper that he went and got married in order to have a good excuse to get away from it for a few weeks. Recalling those halcyon days, UU told us exclusively: "I love the Signpost, and have had a great time working on it. It does get in the way of writing real articles though, as some users might testify, and it can be a pain to come up with stories each week - hopefully this issue might spark a few people to put some more ideas in the press room".

Fortunately, UU had taken the foresighted step of questioning the staying power of one Gerrycheevers in a previous issue's "comeback of the week" box, and Gerry was so determined to prove he had what it took, that he took over the paper while UU swanned off around the world. Cheevers's time at the helm brought such classic issues as the all-kitten issue, and his exclusive dewy-eyed remembrances run thusly: "I'm proud for having successfully stolen this periodical from Cajek and Skull, and I look forward to many more years of turning forums into news stories, dredging up old features that nobody cares about, and of course making tedious Cajek ban jokes. I also demand a raise and Cajek's office!"

Unfortunately, Cheevers's staying power lived up to UU's expectations, and Gerry took another small break. UU returned to the paper, and frantically enlisted contributions from the likes of Orian57 and Heerenveen to keep the wheels of news turning smoothly. Asked for comment on his input, Orianexclusively told us: "It's a been a great help in bonding together this community. And it's made things more interesting, what with everyone trying to do news worthy things just to get their names in the paper. Or something, I can't manufacture funny under pressure and this is pressure because you're gonna put this in the paper just to humiliate me now, aren't you?". Hv, meanwhile, exclusively commented: "It's amazing that our wonderful newspaper has lasted for so long, especially when you figure the us editors have had nothing to work with but "OMGZ THIS WIKI IZ D00MED" stories since about Issue IV. It's a great tribute to the us editors' ability to make Cajek-filled fluff pieces up on the fly. Maybe they we should try for the Daily Mail?".

Gerrycheevers has been fully back on board since early this year, UU is still hanging around in between banning people and huffing stuff, and with other contributors still pitching in, plus a plentiful supply of Cajek bans to use as padding (see next story), it looks like the immediate future of the paper is in goodcompetenthuman some kind of hands. Want to join the list of over 25 people who have contributed to the paper since its inception? Or want to join the ranks of hand-deliverers and paperbots that have been burned out along the way, and now line the wiki as lifeless husks? Give us a shout in the press room, and become part of the Uncyc furniture!

During the very same week that Uncyclopedia's most well-known journalism source (suck it, UnNews!) celebrates its first birthday with much cake and punch, one of its co-founders achieved his own personal milestone by being banned for the one hundredth time. Rumors of making Cajek an admin when he reached the milestone have thus far not proven to be true, although he may have magically gained sysop powers upon entering triple-digit territory and we just won't know it until he comes back from wherever he's hiding in a hailstorm of admin-related activity (whatever it is that they do).

The milestone was reached largely thanks to users such as Sockpuppet of an unregistered user, who took to the streets in a grassroots effort to raise awareness, and Gerrycheevers, who went directly to certain sysops with demonstrably active bansticks pleading for a "Cajek-whooping." The landmark 100th ban was achieved yesterday, with the good Dr. Skullthumper blocking Cajek with an expiry time of "a milestone". The UnSignpost would like to congratulate Cajek, and also plead for his return.

Cajek was unavailable for comment, and this reporter was once again chased off of the grounds of the Cajek Mansion, this time by the abstract philosophical concept of existentialism.

The cabal is most displeased with this apparent so called "newspaper" or "voice of the people". What news could there be other than "maintain the peace and obey the cabal, should it exist"? What voice should the people have other than "Yes sir", "No sir" and "Of course, I'll send my sister post haste to your bedroom, Sir"? This useless rag might let people think that the Uncyclopedians have a modicum of freedom. We the cabal, do not exist. But if we did, we'd be most unpleased and just about prepared to clamp down on this operation. Obey the cabal, the cabal is your imaginary friend.

11:00, 15 March 2009 MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) blocked Slicktorine (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 2 weeks ‎ (Cyberbullying: We just don't care about you or your friends. Sorry. I suggest you ask him for a date. He's probably a really nice guy.)

02:46, 8 February 2009 Roman Dog Bird (Talk | contribs) blocked 97.83.236.223 (Talk) with an expiry time of Judgement Day ‎ (Fer the love of Christ, you make me think I actually have a life. You've been doing the same God damn thing since the summer. Just fuck off already.)

02:14, 10 December 2008 Flammable (Talk | contribs) blocked 70.142.37.160 (Talk) with an expiry time of Judgement Day ‎ (Hi. Welcome to Uncyc. I'm glad you enjoyed your stay here. We did too.)

04:57, 23 October 2008 Tom mayfair (Talk | contribs) blocked TheLedBalloon (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of Judgement Day ‎ (Intimidating behaviour/harassment: & Not The Good Sexual Kind of Harassment Either)

04:20, 22 October 2008 TheLedBalloon (Talk | contribs) blocked 210.15.244.104 (Talk) with an expiry time of 2 weeks ‎ (You, sir, have gone above and beyond the call of failure. Now that may sound like a compliment, but read it again, paying special attention to that last word. Yeah.)

23:56, 20 July 2008 Olipro (Talk | contribs) blocked Swampgas (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of infinite ‎ (congratulations, now you can add us to your list of sites you got banned from for being a bellend)

07:26, 23 June 2008 Manticore (Talk | contribs | block) blocked 124.170.144.245 (Talk) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (You have been autoblocked by the Uncyclopedia penis-size-detector. Rylie, I'm afraid your penis is too small to edit Uncyclopedia. Please try again after puberty.)

1 year old this week, the UnSignpost is the wiki-based newspaper vain enough to give itself a biopic! It has yet to write any featured articles, and hasn't even created a single featured image, but it's appeared on almost as many talk pages as a Modus one-liner, and is certainly the longest-lived newspaper on this wiki. Vive l'UnSignpost!

Thankies of the Week

The staff of the UnSignpost would like to thank all our readers for pretending to care long enough for us to reach this milestone. We couldn't have done it without you. (Well, we could, but there wouldn't have been much point).

Retraction of the Week

In last week's edition of the UnSignpost, the current swine flu pandemic was hailed as a blessing, and our editors expressed hope that the world population would be reduced, making references to particular groups of people as 'expendable'. We would like to express our deepest apologies for referring to this epidemic as 'swine flu', and we will henceforth refer to it by the disease's proper name: H1N1 influenza. We are truly sorry to any pigs or other members of the swine family who may have taken offense.

Old School Featured Article of the Week

Water Polo... With Sharks! is possibly the most difficult, dangerous, and exciting sport known to man. With only slight rules variations from normal water polo, such as the amount of hands you can have on the ball and there being sharks in the water, Water Polo... With Sharks! is the world's second fastest-growing sport, behind Texas Hold 'Em... With Rabid Wolverines!

Pathetic Plea of the Week

What has happened to all of the robots? The UnSignpost has gone through a seeminglyendlesssupplyofrobots, and severalunsuspectingandapparentlybored users have also hand-delivered the paper when no automated bots were available. Lately, Sock and Dexter have joined forces to ensure prompt Signpost delivery, but surely the task of pasting the paper onto thousandshundreds dozens of talk pages will result in arm fatigue and dog attacks. Therefore, a plea: everyone create more robots!

Old School 'Of the Week' Box of the Week

This Week in Uncyclopedia, featured in issues 3 through three, took a look back at some of the greatest highs and crushing lows in the history of this silly wiki. Look for this box to make a triumphant return to the UnSignpost, along with other old favorites such as UU's Obscure British Dialect Expression of the Week and Reason For Leaving Uncyclopedia of the Week.

Yes you did on your talkpage, it raised the angst levels, and that's not good for my piles...--Sycamore(Talk) 12:45, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

This? It's not that I was ignoring you. It's more like I wasn't paying attention. I try not to do anything more than half-assed, as I might need to use the other half should a sitting-centric emergency arise. Sorry for missing the recent changes. I did ban that guy, though. That was pretty cool. I was like Han Friggin' Solo! SirModusoperandiBoinc! 12:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

England

What was wrong with the england article edits?
--Doomdealer666 22:10, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Sadly you chopped a little too keenly, since you've brought it up and you are obviously not a vandal, you can edit the page without harassment from myself at least, but it would be very preferable if you do not remove the stuff from the bottom of the page. Thanks there, and have fun:-)--Sycamore(Talk) 10:36, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

User Talk:Acrolo

Noticed lately yah been helpin mee and i wanna say thanksors... Still getting used to this site, could use a little adoptioness if your up to it :P

Please also look at my Injury article which had an ICU tag on it i totally noticed that long random lists arent that funny so i added content to it and dont know if im allowed to remove it :P

Thanks ~ Acrolo didi do the sig right? prolly not lol.

OK, consider yourself adopted - feel free to come by for anything:)

I intially put the Ugly tag on it, but a very charming sort put an ICU on it, I've put back the ugly template for now. It needs a fair bit of work still, check out Uncyclopedia:Best of top see hw our best articles are put together, as well as HTBFANJS our humour bible (sort of).

I'll cut your balls off

No seriously, you've just created the third one. How about listing them in QVFD in the future? ~ 08:46, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

I am sorry, I thought I had been, I'll try and not do so in future:)--Sycamore(Talk) 12:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry my Samurai Jack article sucks... but I've gotten to a point to where I just dunno what the hell to do with it. :x - Hanyouman 13:36, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I would not say it sucks, maybe it needs a bit of pruning and sharpining, it's a matter of time and patience with some things. Also you owe me no apology:-)--Sycamore(Talk) 13:38, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Deadliest Warrior

I just don't have the energy to revise and revise the thing. Can't ya get someone else to do it? I don't know anyone on Unsike.
--FlameHorse 21:13, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello

I wuv u

Hello, my name is fuentfue and im a cute, docile noob looking for a good home. It says on the adopt a noob page your looking for adoptees. I've been following the site for well over a year now and have a few solid edits, an image on VFP and im working on a few articles right now. I was wondering if you could help me out with some of the formating on the articles, thats what I struggle with most. I plan to stick around for a while as well. Please, don't leave me abandoned...

I think I will probably be taking a semi-sabbatical from here, and it would be an idea to ask one of the other adopters like Mordillo:)--Sycamore(Talk) 12:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)